Only 12 hours removed from seeing The Winery Dogs in my hometown, I was greeted this morning with news that Prog Magazine is streaming the new live album from my favorite Mike Portnoy band, Flying Colors.

Recorded last year in The Netherlands, the album captures the lineup of Neal Morse, Casey McPherson, Steve Morse, Dave LaRue, and Portnoy playing their debut album – a blend of rock, pop and, yes, prog – and rounding out their performance with tracks from the members’ previous bands, such as Spock’s Beard’s “June” and Dream Theater’s “Repentance,” which DT fans will know as part of Portnoy’s “12-Step AA suite,” featuring Portnoy on lead vocals.

Prog fans will no doubt enjoy the closing track, “Infinite Fire,” the 12-minute epic showcasing the vocal and instrumental talents of the entire group.

“Flying Colors: Live In Europe” will be released in numerous audio and video formats the week of October 13th. You can listen to the stream here: http://www.progrockmag.com/stream/premiere-flying-colors-live-album-in-full/

 

An aside: Having saw The Winery Dogs last night, I can’t recommend them enough if you like a lot of playing in a hard rock format, plus you’ll never see a harder-working rhythm section than Billy Sheehan and Portnoy, who treated last night’s club setting as if it was Radio City Music Hall.